The Sun. — London, England, 1818-11-18 00:00:00

LONDON JOURNALS. [FROM THE MORNING PIPERS OF THIS DAY.] [Morning Post.] DEATH OF THE QUEEN. The fatal event, for which the nation has ben 'so long and so painfully prepared, has at lench taken -place. The aged and venerable CONSoRT of our afflicted SovEtatotsris no more, en d the Throne, almost halt evacuated by his - lamented illness, is now left nearly •vacant by i►er removal from the cares and sufferings of existence. On Mmiday night, the leg from which the Water had broken (;ts already described by us) became mor tified, and her medical attendants ascertained that she could not live many hours, The bulletin, issued yesterday Morning, revealed to the Public the opinion entertained by them upon the sub ject, and left no doubt of the approaching con 3ummatinn of her earthly fate. lininediately after the arrival of the melancholy account in town, their Royal Highnesses the rrinee Regent and the Duke of York set off for fiseVr. They reached the Palace at half-past twelve o'elOck. Her Majesty was still breathing, but Ike powers of life wet e totally exhausted. She was calm and resigned and at one o'clock her Majesty expired without a strgggle. About four in the afternoon the lamented event was.officially announced by Lord Sidmonth in the following LETTER TO THE LORD MAYOR. MY 1:013n, " li l / 4 itehall, 17th. Nov. 161 S. " It is my painful duty to inform your Lordship of the death of her Majesty the QUEEN. " This melancholy event took place at Kew Palace, at one o'clock this day. I have the honour to be, " Your Lordship's most obedient, "SIDMOUTH. " The Right Hon. the Lord Mauor," &c. At ►►ine o'clock last night was published the fol- lowing biIPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE. TUESDAY, NOvEMBF.R 17, 1818. " Whitehall, Nov. 17, 1818. " This day, at one o'clock, the Queen departed this life, to the inexpressible grief of all the Royal Family, after a tedious illness, which her Majesty bore with the .most pious fortitude and resignation. The many great and exemplary virtues, which so eminently distinguished her Majesty throughout her long life, were the object of universal esteem and admiration, amongst all classes of his Majesty's subjects, and render the death of this Illustrious and most excellent Princess an nuspeahable loss to the whole nation." Thus has a long and irreproechable career of seventy-four years, fifty-seven of which have been spent in sharing the first Throne in the tVorld, been closed its the midst of bodily suffer ings, whose severity and oppressive nature have only served to display the courage and resignation of their victim. Till within the last taelve months, her Majesty had enjoyed an excellent state of health, the result of a strong natural con stitution, kept unimpaired. by the equanimity of her temper, and the moderation and sim plicity which she preserved in her bight estate, in the midst of all the refinements of a most laxuri ous age and a splendid court. Since the period of her last journey to Bath, her strength had been gradually declining, till the dreadful complaint which has at last terminated her existence broke forth with a degree of violence, which at her ad vanced age left but slight hopes of her recovery. Still her constitution was so radically good, and the attentions which site received front all the members of her family were so constant and so soothing, that medical skill, seconded by such aids, prolonged an existence which seemed at its close, and for many months disappointed the grave of its prey. It has now opened, however, and devoitt•ed the aged and venerable parent on the very eve of the anniversary of the day when it closed over the mortal remains of her blootping grand-daughter (the ever to be lamented Princess Charlotte) and her infant son ! Whilst no Queen has so long shared the Throne 'of this Empire as her late Majesty, so none has ever displayed in that exalted station more of those virtues ss.hich do honour to the character of a fe male in every sphere. Fertile above most women, she divided her care and affectious amongst her -numerous progeny, with a degree of ardour and sincerity, winch produced from them the most griiteful returns. As a Queen, she was affable and - condescending. Though born a German, she had • none of the pride and haughtiness attributed to her nation. 'She maintained the dignity of her rank; but eviticel the most winning courtesy to wards all those who were introduced to her pre .settee. On-one point she was inflexible. A Eat terp of virtue herself, site required it in othersisitd !sever would suffer her Court to be polluter) by the ;adniissiou sOf doubtful characters. This severity made her some enemies,.but it shed a lustre round the Throne whieb no other Court could boast. As xpolitician, her interference was not extensive,but whenever it was exerted, she always threw the weight of her influence into the scale in favour of those principles which have rescued the country from revolution and anarchy, and litre rendered it the deliverer of nations. Faults she might have, for she was human ; but they are lost in the mag nitude of her good qualities and excellencies ; and as lorlg as conjugal virtues are revered, as long as parental affection is cherished, and the mild ex ercise of the loftiest dignity duly appreciated, she, will be remembered with love, regret, and admi ration by every feeling beau. Her late Majesty, whose maiden name was Sophia Charlotte or Caroline of i‘lecklenburgh 'trelitz, was. born May 16, 1744. She was the youngest daughter of Charles Lewis, brother to li`rederick, the third Duke of Mecklenburg!), Her ather, however, though in the immediate line of itheritance, as his brother the reigning Duke had in) issue, and was unmarried, did not succeed to - he principality he died before his brother, and thus, upon the death of Frederick, the succession devolved upon his nephew, Adolphlls Frederick the Fourth, brother to her present Majesty. respect of her Majesty's union with our beloved and afflicted Sovereign, it seems necessary to ob serve, that this event was not a matter of mere state policy, hut ot pretence and 'diet ion . His Majesty had not long filled the thrame before.,be acquainted his Council, in a meeting convened for the express purpose, " That having. nothing so much at heart as the welfare and happiness of his peOple, and „that to render the same stable and permanent to posterity being the first object of his reign, he had, ever since Isis accession to the throne, turned Isis thoughts to the choice of a Princess, with whom he Might find the solace of matrimony, and the comforts of domestic life : Ile hail to announce to them, therefore, with great sa tisfaction, that, after the most mature reflection and fullest information, he had come to a resolution to demand in mar riage the Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, a Princess distinguished by every amiable virtue and elegant endowment, whose illustrious line had constantly shewn the firtnest zeal in the Protestant religion, and a particular at tachment to his Majtsty's family.'' Such were the terms in which his Majesty an nounced his Royal intention to his Council on the Stir July, 1761. The negociation commenced at Streli!a, and the Earl of Harcourt, his Ma jesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plettipo tentiary, concluded the treaty of marriage on the 15th of Angnst following. Pi eparations were immediately made for the receptiou of the Roya l Bride in England., She left Meeklenhurgh on the 22(1 of Augusto and arrived, after a tedious voyage of ten days, at Harwich, on the 6th of the fol lowing month. Her Majesty rested one night, that of her arrival, upon her jotaney, at the hoUse of the Earl of Abercorn, at Witham in Es sex, trout whence she set out early next morning, and arrived at • the Palace of St. Janus, where she was received by his Majesty and the rest of the Royal Family. Ar !line upon the same evening the marriage ceremony was so -I,thnitt-d h' the Archbishop ot Canterbury, in the Royal Chapel, under circumstances of appropriate splendour and respect. The usual congratulatory addresses were presented to their Majesties from hot h Houses of Parliament, the two Universities, and all counties, cities, and corporations in the kingdom. The Grand Assembly of the Nation prepared likewise a testimony of their ditty and munificence. On being formally acquainted with the marriage . of the King, they provided t6r the support of her Majesty, agreeably to the Sove reign's wishes, a jointure of 100,0001. per annum, which was settled upon her by an Act of the Le-: gislature, together with the Palace of Richmond and Buckingham House. In the following year the joy of the nation was increased by the birth of an heir to the throne. The hope of continuing the Protestant succession in his Majesty's family was now changed to a kind of certainty, and the birth of an heir was of itself sufficient to have established the popularity of a Queen of England, even had she wanted those many virtues which her Majesty was so well known to possess. At a late hour last night we received the fol lowing further particulars of the much-lamented event : " The first change of a serious nature in the state of the Queen was on Monday afternoon, which was of such a nature as to cause Sir Henry Halford to write to the Prince Regent, and the language of the letter was such as to induce the Regent to send for the I)uke of York, to ac company hint to Kew Palace. Their Royal Highnesses remained at Kew till near one o'clock, when her Majesty having recovered from her serious attack, their Royal Highnesses left their afflicted Parent for the night. Her Majesty, however, passed a disturbed night, but only similar to what she had frequently done for some time past, and the Physicians sent off an account to the Regent, a little before S o'clock, to that effect. In two hours afterwards a serious chan;4e took place in her Majesty, and Sirs Henry IlaHord sent off an express to the Regent, which arrived soon after 11 o'clock at Carlton House, and the statement was so alarming, that the Prince sent for the Duke of York to attend him instant ly, to accompany him to Kew. Their Royal High nesses arrived at Kew Palace before halt-past twelve, and instantly resorted to the Chamber of their expiring Parent, who, we are happy to say, was perfectly sensible. The scene was most truly distressing with the Prince Regent, who had the trying task of supporting her in her last breathings, awl who has been so incessant in his attendance day and night, contriving and ordering every thing that could possibly be devised for her relief, in her long; and afflicting illnesS of six months. His Royal P' llighness was assisted by the Duke of York and their Royal Sisters. The expiring scene of the venerM)le and amiable Queen, the heart rending feelings of the Regent and all present, it is impossible-to describe. They were supported with much (4ifficulty to a private !nom, %I-here the Regent continued several hours, supporting and affording every possible 'comfort to his jointly af flicted RoyaiSisters, and then left Kew for town. " The first cotnmunication which arrived in town of the melancholy tidings, was about halt past two o'clock, at Carlton House, sealed with black, addressed to Viscount Sidmouth, as Secre tary of State fur the - Home Department ; also to . Sir Henry 'l'orrens, from the Duke of York, to postpone his Royal Highness's Levee. The me lancholy tidings were soon circulated, and inquiries were made very numerously at Carlton House ; and at three o'clock the following Notification was issued to the Nubility and others who were anxiously inquiring : CARLTON HOUSE, Nov. 17. Her MAJESTY expired at one o'clock this day, without pain.' " It was written on paper with wide black edges. The Bulletin of the morning continued to be shown at the Queen's Palace till past four o'clock, no official account of the decease of her Majesty having been received there till it was sent from Carlton I-louse, when the Palace was closed, and Colonel Stephenson, who had been in attend ance during the morning, left town for Kew with all possible speed. Letters were sent off by the Govetnment bags (it being post night prevented the necessity of sending messengers) to all the Royal Dikes, the Prince and Princess of Hesse- Homlsourg, and to the Duke of Gloucester,' by his travelling private name.' " Mr. Vick, the King's Messenger, was the only one sent abroad with the melancholy tidings, (16d he is gone to Aix-la-Chapelle." St. Paul's Bell, and those of all the other Churches of ti►e MetropoliS, tolled at inte'ryals throughout the whole of the evening; the several Theatres were shut, and published notices that they would remain cloSed till further notice ; and mos.! .of the shops in Bond-strestaiccadilly, Bte. were half closed on the melancholy occasion. The Duke of Norfolk, as Hereditary Earl Mar shal of England, is expected in town this day, to issue the customary recommendation for a General Mourning, to commence on Sunday next. Last night Mr. Marsh, of the Lord Chamber• lain's Office, and Mr. France, the Royal Under taker, arrived at Kew to make arrangetnents for the Funeral, which, we understand, will for the nrost part accord with those of the Ceremonial observed on the occasion of the inter►nent of Queen Caroline. [Morning Chronicle.l The melancholy event which the nation has for some time been taught to expect, has at length taken place. Her Arl,tjesty has been relieved from her sufferings.- She departed this life yesterday, at K e w, at one o'clock, uithout a struggle. Her Majesty was horn on the 19th of May, 1744 ; was married on the Bth, and crowned on the 22d of September, 1761; and she was therefore in the 75t1► year• of her age. Our Readers ►sill re collect, that in our Paper, of Saturday laSt, ere stated that some days before, her Nlajesty felt considerable temporary relief from a small rriptore of the skin in both ankles, from whicl► there had been afterwards a considerable effusion of water. It was not, we said, occasioned by any puncture, but tht• effort of nature, and it had the effect of affording temporary relief; " but it too frequently happens that such cracks in the skin of a dropsi cal patient produce symptoms of more speedy termination than the disease itself.“—The symp touts to which we alluded, from motives of de licacy, we did not conceive ourselves at liberty to mention more particularly ; but we may now state, that a small speck began then to be visible in her Majesty's right heel, which announced the approach of the mortification that took place on Monday last. From the moment of tl►e corn mencethent of mortification, a speedy dissolution was of course inevitable. [The Times.; it is tit length our duty to announce this me lancholy, though not unlooked-for, termination of a course Of !minim suffering uncommonly pro tracted and severe. That her Majesty should not have sunk before, Under the complicated maladies which assailed her at SO advanced an age, is, we are taught to believe, more surprising to her medical attendants, than that she has ultimately yielded to their violence. The Queen was horn on the I9th of May, 1744 ; hating from nature a sound and vigorous frame. tfntil within these two years, her Majesty enjoyed an almost uninterrupted state of health ; and, as is some times the case with those whose habits are regular, and whose various bodily powers are ti.ence exposed to a pretty equal essure, the first very serious attack of disease was that whiCh indicated a general breaking-up 'of her constitw. tion. The water which accumulated in her limbs and on her chest wits an unequivocal symptom of the deadly stage which her Majesty's sufferings had arrived at. This source of distress and im mediate alarm was, however, acted upon, from time to time, both by medicines and surgical ope rations, which were productive of partial, though gradually dimiuishing, relief, until " the potent poison quite o'ergiew" the antidotes applied to it by professional science. Eacli interval of re pose became shorter than the preceding one— each succeeding paroxysm more acne—each strug gle more nearly mortal. The Queen expired at Kew, about one o'clock on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1818, in the 75th year of her age. That her Majesty was provided with the best medical assistance which England, the centre of human art and knowledge, could afford, most be a solid satisfaction to those wi;o were peisonally attached to her, and to all her sympathizing sub jects. It was an advantage, at the same time, which, with few exceptions, people of high rank never fail to possess. But there are other and sweeter alleviations of human agony, which na ture calls for, and life not 'infrequently fur nishes--blessings which should accompany old age, " As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends;" which, nevertheless, afflicted greatness cannot al ways " look to have." Foremost on this list of anodynes must ever be esteemed the kind and watchful attention of our children ; those up on whose hearts, if we have faithtully disch a rged our parental duties, we cannot tail to have esta blished the strongest claims to grateful and pious tenderness. We are told by the public and private records of tke times, that a suitable marriage for his Ma jesty was an urgent' (as it was a natural) object of state policy, immediately on his coining to the Crown. Lord Bute, then sent a confidential de pendent, a Scotch Offievr, repotted to be Colonel Grime, (who was afterwards appointed to be Master of St. Catherine's, near the Tower, an excellent place, in the peculiar gift of her Ma jesty,) to visit the infetior Ger'man Courts, and to select frouramongst them a future Queen for England. The instructions were said to be, that site should he perfect in her form, of a pure blood, anti healthy constitution, possessed of elegant ac comp!ishments, particularly music, to which the King was very much attached, and of a mild and obliging disposition. Colonel Gtuen►e found the reigning Princess of Strelitz teking the waters of Pyrmont, and ac companied by her two daughters, with little or no appearance of parade ; and where, from the treedoin of communication usual at those places, and the ready means of observation, &A.. it was no difficult matter to become fully acquainted with their charactirs and daily habits. Thi.ir Serene Highnesses frequented the rooms, the walks, and partook of the amusements, without any distinction that should prevent Colonel Grzerne from being an uusu•pected attendant on their parties. Here, it seems, he fixed on the younger Princess, as best according with his Matrimonial instructions. In short, after all dne communications the Princess Charlotte of he . the consort of L I ' 11 Fla 143 1 tir ; with the Duchesses of GeorgeAncast.er and H the two finest women of the British Court , ' c ot sent to conduct her thither; sod Lord 0 500 t hli appointed to command the fleet of c onvoy °l) r the important occasion. The circumstan ces `trelitz ' was t voyage, , Which was very stormy, , 12 : e ee the journey and arrival in London, ber nal la r - .1111 cereinf" l : l - $1 same eveuinu, the successive courts, coronation,. 4Ste be found in Do:lsley's ri n k .u it llegister for the year 1761. We shall rein ar- c e, however, en Passant, as a tvhimsical circualsr'n that Lady Sarah Lenox was swung her I\l9°l bride's-maids. b u t bee lier 'Majesty's figure was very -ileasitig, countenance, though not withontiattraction vi.`lol she smiled, could not boast claim 10 1 ° 311. 0 that h i ol It was, ho‘‘ ever, a well•known fact, King declared himself satisfied with his COnhavii fortune. She entered at ones upon the • 11° „ / 00 offices of the drawing-room a most be c- 01 0 ing grace arid easy dignity. It was a Sing s tbt occurrence, that the first play she VOT It.:hearsal, in which Mr. Garrick, in his iisri ble representation of the character of 13afe5'."e"i he King, the courtiers, and the audience , tillioo continual roar ; but which, from the c otisirtc ' hit of she piece, it was not possible to explain t()'' Majesty. r She was popular when Lord Bute's adta' tlje " ist r, tom had rendered the King very inoch verse. She gave beautiful children to the a C T I )11 01 She interested the peotile of England as 'll-sitl mother, and was considered with aeher si e r n e i g ni l as a domestic woman sr, notbh so t , tlial a al a ‘ir i e l y: l t then a violent P.n:soi tiors e s r i)e " " t e b ri i'dd ' . el:e dc o r : We are info: met), on very soon after the death of the Princess harl°lleord, Queen made a codicil to her will, for the h es ,'ete propose of ordering that she should not , u" balined. • good [New Times.] w ho le p i ] The painful sympathy with which a Iv 4 - 011", tion has regarded the protra c ted statler i " s venerable Queen is at length broudlit to 111 : 1 4 Her Majesty breathed her last, wi t :bou t a ; sCr gle, yesterday at one o'clock,—Tbus hav-rotell urinated fifty-seven years of a splendour flessi paralleled in the annals of female g re3 f t iii o6° ‘ for so long did her Majesty sit on t he . o f ° I ; of England, so long was she the cons or ` °" of the most powerful Monarchs in the ttl4lst; Raised to that exalted eminence at.tb e 14 1 ; ot f 17, her innate good sense, and stea d y of religion and virtue, led her, from tbe ver 4b ie l d. chose that path of honourable duty , ‘t j in after life she never deviated. Nor eon • that, as a woman and a Queen, she sos";; Ie b 0 " 1 - ' or easy trials ; for (not to speak of k e rfe torture which for the last months of be .fi l tr el l endured with so much pious resi,natimifite".° know many public and in ivitte cans° ~u -p °,ie rs sorrow which at various periods must fully assailed her fortitude. Domestic'ire is the bitterest of all, even to tb° 9e :' 6:1" s 1 inves ! ted with the highest earthly diP":ls' ,Igia alas her Majesty, iO the neatest te ar If her family ties, saw the evenink , clouded with hopeless melancholy, %I" different In regard to those anxieties r a cte r c )( mews which belonged to her public 01 ; r 4 0 10 1. Fully partaking the sentiments of 6 j i v i to t t i, than whom none was ever more zeul t " ) ',' 0 84 , ed to the best interests,, the truest • gl°l,),?re most genuine liberties of his peoplei time when her Majesty could not b ut serious alarm and apprehension the (tonged rilit beset her adopted country; It has ple, 6 `l e 5 0 0 deuce that those clouds ShOuld pass 0 4 .:,roeta succeeded by an extraordinary and n ri t ee'' c d. deliverance; and, therefore, as the w're e pee :nighty nation, the hhiffet of Th r(). ;:at , j 1 Wished and exalted, this pionS liri"ce;‘' latest hour may have ejaculated to dei rst t " Now, lettest thou thy servant peace•" [British Press.] , pm any teeli by the Country in The m elancholy., toy ig anticipated It "gthi talk'gS„ ofsuri-"is,-. Or astoilisinneat),ci, her' Ai • e-- place. Yesterday, at one °11,1e0! _.,... aiesty tertnii;ated a lung and pair iil l i ,,, l ne °l : :% 1 5 1 . :(-h even front its commencetnent bad " -r i co si. ( en. . ) 1 1 11 and alarming appearance, and whil e i to ilii illeart7leihter medical and Other attent:3ol9oeoP of'ling agony of witnessing Elle . ° , 1 ,1 till feritius ' the Illustrious Patient, der tv'.4 0% of all hopes of seeing them cloy' by 011, 1 v 10' o rn t e s a u ns h tban the hand of death, fler al3/:,,ti il le ' (..ca. a nature, that nothing short of . g r o " 0 4 0 1 ' 1:1skill could have protracted her life s sit y during i the latter stages of it, ibe ioteille cola! ,Ppaell:c"ilich hail marked its progress at the ement yielded tothe skill o f the rl'Y o f ife and finally, i . , . sensibility, 'el I\lBJesfy sunk into a '', j i s 9o) general to 0215 0„ the immediate forerunner 0' tion. --- -- - Si [Morning " T tl g °. Herald.] 1;.1:1V, es"A 3, 1 i ~ 4 0 , " We have at lertg:h the melancholltB4°l o f th e noncing this mournful e vrnt. 1,1 aliteef 0' S o d u " After a long and ailiicti rig illness, reniaUa..e tie ot % the r P: f , j oty t severity of suffering which, i t inflicted, "" pious resignation with which it wits born e, li e dc loc l " . pined, thi s afternoon, at twenty minutes atter anearterno" 4 t, We have before stated, that throughout di! s l otc al' it Monday, her Alajesty remained in that lethargiey ioloiect, we . have so oft en described; and s o little w3s t 3 e "d3l'ts' td ta "ninn tant change expected by her medical at or jer . e _.., at six o'Llock, Sir Henry Hal forJ's carri"ge Via : l 4 V tl'l' lt 'ol convey him on his usual visit t.ri the I(intl ' o °o c : t f P Sophia,. at Wilitlsor ; and the first messenger rr isg e f Ole House was returned without a teport; Il ie c tr 3 i pa r G o O f Henry, however, had scarcely drawn nil 9t t wer e' A ra l Palace, when her Majesty manifested i•' 11 :elpartal:rco • 1 estle,sness, that he was 'minced to Cielay b i r 0 , r ig lit• eventually, in about three-quarters of aa h:lll.'rtlienr (re'll ,was ordered hack, and the jourtiel P° stP"l) ,; ni:" ' ° eo4 : oliiir): "At half-past seven o'clock, the SC COO- rgia4l...;‘''s CarltorrHouse, who was still waiting a t ' tic '''''''' ~, ,,- .:0 t `'A ' 4l %;r'a:k. 1;31 I t ; S i I Wa s, that aCConi pani, had an ir their entire ceases to ti c "s'derat " Prom FY's disolTd rapidit result bei, IsPend th e 1 f or th e arc " In coo si or , of the after twelr ber Majest c oned ; an l'a laee f or 44 Th e re h olverer, ~ nete ased n ight s h e Sir Henry— `ha'uber „, re,tirw till b ‘` Cia4S , as „ fulio w S• •--- ` Th e Q , 4 ' 4 dang, tthe Nt-1, c ust: l : ; II " br a i r r h er kept, ae itst. 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